Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 3 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 4 | They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) . |
| 5 | Spalding and Miss Robinson were sent to the lift , told to get out at the second floor , turn right , and go to the rooms numbered 207 and 208 . |
| 6 | He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for . |
| 7 | In contrast , at times Durie looked ready to scream , especially when the errors started creeping in during the second set of her 6-2 , 7-6 win over the promising Yayuk Basuki . |
| 8 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 9 | If he managed to win through in the first round , there is now a second round of contests to be staged , followed by the final round later in the year . |
| 10 | Only two candidates ( Dominique Voynet in the Jura and Christine Barthet in Haut-Rhin ) managed to get through to the second round on March 28 but neither was then elected . |
| 11 | What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information . |
| 12 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
| 13 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 14 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 15 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 16 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
| 17 | The empiricism that had come out of the 19th century as the dominant intellectual mode had been twisted to the right , so to speak , by the ‘ white emigration ’ from Europe . |
| 18 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |
| 19 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 20 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 21 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 22 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 23 | The government accepted indicative bids for BTG and informed the consortia involved in the bidding which of them had got through to the second round at the end of January . |
| 24 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 25 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 26 | He listened to Nigel Cramer for several minutes , nodded and gave his own orders to the dozen men who had clambered out of the second and third helicopters . |
| 27 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've only five horses here at the moment , ’ Tom said moving on to the first loose-box . |
| 29 | They walked away , and the exhibit , full of inertia and its own importance , continued to slide and pump long after they had walked on into the next display . |
| 30 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |